Light vs Docyt
Docyt automates bookkeeping for hotels, restaurants and multi-location businesses: AI agents categorise, reconcile and close, with bill pay, corporate cards, expense management and consolidated reporting, syncing with QuickBooks, Xero, Sage or NetSuite, in one currency. Light is the agentic ERP for the international group: one ledger for every entity and currency, with AP, AR, cards, vendor payments on local rails in 80+ countries and consolidation built in.
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Light and Docyt, compared
| Feature | Light | Docyt |
|---|---|---|
| Multi-currency accounting | ||
| AI bookkeeping: categorisation, reconciliation and close | ||
| Bill pay with approvals | ||
| Corporate cards and expense management | ||
| Consolidated reporting across entities | ||
| Vendor payments on local rails in 80+ countries | ||
| Consolidation across currencies |
Keep daily finance together
Light runs bills, customer invoicing, cards and payments alongside the general ledger. Agents complete routine work within your controls, with a record of every action.
Pay suppliers across borders
Docyt pays by ACH and mailed cheque. Light pays approved bills from your own bank accounts on local rails in more than 80 countries.
Consolidate across currencies
Docyt reports entities in one currency. Light consolidates entities that report in different currencies, with currency translation and intercompany eliminations as transactions post.
When to choose Light
Built for the group abroad
Each entity keeps its own currency and local books and rolls up to one group view, with payments on local rails in 80+ countries.
Every currency, one set of books
Transactions post in their own currency and consolidate into the group's, with FX handled natively.
Pay suppliers from the ledger
Approved bills pay from your own bank accounts on local rails in 80+ countries.
“We evaluated several vendors. Light won because it covers our full finance stack, revenue, AR, AP, expenses, and consolidation, without stitching together a patchwork of point solutions.”
TanjaDirector of Finance, Omnea
Built for the daily work
Bills through to payment
Capture invoices, route approvals and pay vendors from the same system.
Room to grow
One ledger built to handle billions of transactions across your business.
Trace every number
Open a report and drill straight into the transactions behind it.
Spending, under control
Expenses, vendors and cards connected to your ledger.
Expenses
Collect receipts, approve expenses and track spend as it happens.
Vendors
Keep supplier details, bills and approvals together. Apply your purchasing rules as work moves through.
Cards
Issue cards for employees and vendors. Pay with Apple Pay or Google Pay. Send receipts through Slack, Teams or email.
Frequently asked questions
Does Docyt support multi-currency?
No. Light posts every transaction in its own currency and consolidates the group.
Does Light include bill pay and cards?
Yes. Bills, approvals, cards and expenses post to the same ledger as everything else.
When does Docyt fit?
A hotel, restaurant or multi-location business reporting in one currency that wants bookkeeping and revenue reconciliation automated.